On the other side, some people (or well, at least one person I recall but there may have been others) were saying michel's post was sarcastic. It wasn't sarcastic, it was satire. Not all satire is rude or intended to convey contempt. I've seen michel be sarcastic and he really lays it on like a wis...

"The former NSA director General Keith Alexander stated that all those communicating with encryption will be regarded as terror suspects and will be monitored and stored as a method of prevention, as quoted by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in August last year. The top secret source code publish...